Try doing 'df -h', to find out how much disk free space is available (in human readable numbers), for all the mounted partitions on your system.
On Monday 14 November 2005 23:06, Michael Walters wrote: > Hello All and especially bogi, > > I did an ls -l on the tmp directory and various other directories to see > what space was available in the directories but found out that the > answers I got was not the amount of space used in the directories and > subdirectories. > > How do I find out how much space is used in my michael home directory > and how do I find out how much space is available in the tmp directory > and how do I change how much is available in my tmp directory? > > I found out that one jpg in my mudry subdirectory had 433766 bytes in it > and that another picture that was not stitched together had 109290 bytes > in it. > > I take it that if I could resize the tmp directory I might be able to > tar and possibly zip my home directory in michael. Then perhaps I could > burn the tarred and zipped file to a CD. > > I tried finding out the man page on the ls command and could not figure > out everything I need to know about the meaning of the numbers under an > ls -l command. > > If I need to repartition my hard drive to do this, how do I do that? > > Any help appreciated in advance, > > Michael Walters
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